for a few months, we have another confrontation with the debt ceiling coming up i think in july. and we're going to be fighting that again. we come up with these kind of -- it is like running a hurdles race. every few months, we put up another hurdle. the race is the same race and the battle is the same one. that is whether we're going to have an approach to the budget which invests in things which will keep america growing and prospering over the next couple of decades or whether we'll just try the same austerity program that failed miserably in europe. we put up these hurdles every few months that make it difficult for the public to get a grasp on what's going on. >> bill: yeah. each time, it is we're going over the fiscal cliff. then in the meantime, we have added to it now. the sequester. where we're seeing more and more impacts of it. what have you seen in your district or what are you hearing from your colleagues about impacts of the sequester at the local level? >> well, of course, everyone has any kind of civilian military population around is beginning to feel -- there w